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New Jersey Brewing Water
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NEW! Added water test results for Middlesex Water Company covering Carteret, Woodbridge, and surrounding areas.
This article is meant as a workspace for everything related to brewing water, membership/brewer water chemistry research and data. Many cities are served by the same water system. If water is tested once or twice a year in a given system, the test data should be made available to other members on the same system to save effort and money. If you find that your city is on a system that has already been tested and included in the table below, feel free to use the data. If the test is more than 6 months out of date, it would be great if you can have a sample of your water tested to keep this database up to date. Note, if you are not a member but live in NJ and would like to contribute to this database, send an email with your water system # and test data to webmaster _at_ whalesbrewclub _dot_ com.
Click "read more" to see more. Some instructional videos have also been embedded.
http://www.youtube.com/v/o1n7-RjEJEM
http://www.youtube.com/v/pKT6EE7ong0
How to find which water system you are on by searching county/city:
http://www.nj.gov/dep/swap/creport.htm
Table of Actual Water Test Reports:
| Name | Water System |
Where/When/Notes |
Results |
| Bobby_M | Piscataway - Elizabethtown Water 2004002 (see table of included cities below) | wardlab July 2009 tap water was sampled post sediment/charcoal filter. | Sodium, Na 28 Calcium, Ca 30 Magnesium, Mg 10 Total Hardness, CaCO3 117 Sulfate, SO4-S 15 SO4-45 Chloride, Cl 53 Carbonate, CO3 < 1 Bicarbonate, HCO3 72 Total Alkalinity, CaCO3 59 |
| Craig_E | Franklin Township - Elizabethtown Water 2004002 (see table of included cities below) |
wardlab September 2009 tap water, not filtered |
Sodium (Na) 30 Calcium (Ca) 36 Magnesium (Mg) 11 Total Hardness (CaCo3) 136 Sulfate (SO4-S) 17 SO4-51 Chloride (Cl) 52 Carbonate (CO3) < 1 Bicarbonate (HCO3) 76 Total Alkalinity (CaCO3) 62 |
| Craig_E | Franklin Township - Elizabethtown Water 2004002 (see table of included cities below) |
wardlab September 2009 tap water was sampled post sediment/charcoal filter. |
Sodium (Na) 29 Calcium (Ca) 32 Magnesium (Mg) 11 Total Hardness (CaCo3) 126 Sulfate (SO4-S) 14 SO4- 42 Chloride (Cl) 50 Carbonate (CO3) 9 Bicarbonate (HCO3) 70 Total Alkalinity (CaCO3) 72 |
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HBT Member Flalanuts |
Rumson Boro, Monmouth 1345001 system (see all cities below) |
wardlab tap water | Sodium Na - 33 Calcium Ca - 19 Magnesium Mg - 4 Total hardness - 64 Sulfate SO4-S - 5 SO4 - 15 Chloride CI - 53 Carbonate - 0 BiCarbonate (HCO3)- 45 Total Alkalinity (CaCO3)- 37 |
| Don Boyle |
Middlesex water company |
Wardlab tap water from Colonia/Woodbridge 2010 June |
Sodium Na - 30 Calcium Ca - 115 Magnesium Mg - 18 Total hardness - 363 Sulfate SO4 - 225 Chloride CI - 50 Carbonate - 11 BiCarbonate (HCO3)- 144 Total Alkalinity (CaCO3)- 136 |
| Jay B. |
Middlesex water company |
Wardlab tap water from South Plainfield NJ August 2011 (make sure you pay your bill to Middlesex Water Co. otherwise see system 2004002 data) |
Sodium Na - 28 Calcium Ca - 87 Magnesium Mg - 15 Total hardness - 280 Sulfate SO4 - 48 Chloride CI - 69 Carbonate - 12 BiCarbonate (HCO3)- 203 Total Alkalinity (CaCO3)- 186 |
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if you're not on the 2004002, 1345001, or 1225001 system, please share your test results with the club to help this database grow. |
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NOTE: The red strikethroughs on SO4 is due to a misunderstanding in how Wardlabs denotes Sulfate. In Agriculture, it's typical to measure sulfate by its weight in SULFER (SO4-S). To convert to the sulfate ION, or SO4, multiply by THREE.
Water tests from the table above should represent all the water in the same water systems as tested.
Cities included are noted below:
All the cities served by Elizabethtown Water system #2004002
| Municipality | County | Municipality | County |
| Raritan Twp. | Hunterdon | Manville Boro | Somerset |
| Readington Twp. | Hunterdon | Millstone Boro | Somerset |
| Tewksbury Twp. | Hunterdon | Montgomery Twp. | Somerset |
| Hopewell Twp. | Mercer | North Plainfield Boro | Somerset |
| Lawrence Twp. | Mercer | Peapack-Gladstone | Somerset |
| Princeton Boro | Mercer | Raritan Boro | Somerset |
| Princeton Twp. | Mercer | So. Bound Brook Boro | Somerset |
| West Windsor Twp. | Mercer | Somerville Boro | Somerset |
| Cranbury Twp. | Middlesex | Warren Twp. | Somerset |
| Dunellen Boro | Middlesex | Watchung Boro | Somerset |
| Edison Twp. | Middlesex | Clark Twp. | Union |
| Middlesex Boro | Middlesex | Cranford Twp. | Union |
| Piscataway Twp. | Middlesex | Fanwood Boro | Union |
| Plainsboro Twp. | Middlesex | Garwood Boro | Union |
| South Brunswick Twp. | Middlesex | Hillside Twp. | Union |
| South Plainfield Boro | Middlesex | Kenilworth Boro | Union |
| Chester Boro | Morris | Linden City | Union |
| Bedminster Twp. | Somerset | Mountainside Boro | Union |
| Bound Brook Boro | Somerset | Plainfield City | Union |
| Branchburg Twp. | Somerset | Roselle Boro | Union |
| Bridgewater Twp. | Somerset | Roselle Park Boro | Union |
| Franklin Twp. | Somerset | Scotch Plains Twp. | Union |
| Green Brook Twp. | Somerset | Union Twp. | Union |
| Hillsborough Twp. | Somerset | Westfield Town | Union |
Monmouth County System 1345001:
| City | City | City |
| Aberdeen | Holmdel | Oceanport |
| Allenhurst | Interlaken | Red Bank |
| Asbury Park | Little Silver | Rumson |
| Bradley Beach | Loch Arbour Village | Sea Bright |
| Colts Neck Twp | Long Branch City | Shrewsbury |
| Deal |
Middletown Twp | Tinton Falls |
| Eatontown | Monmouth Beach | Union Beach |
| Fair Haven | Neptune | West Long Branch |
| Highlands | Ocean Twp |
Middlesex Water Company System 1225001:
| City |
| Carteret |
| Metuchen |
| South Amboy |
| South Plainfield?? odd, also listed on another system |
| Woodbridge |
| Clark |
The presentation I delivered at the October 2009 meeting can be found attached to this article as an Adobe PDF which most of you can read. If not, grab the free acrobat reader on adobe.com. It contains a few extra slides that I wasn't able to cover at the meeting. They are examples of how to use the utilities to craft/correct the water profile.
I'll also be attaching my favorite water profile calculation spreadsheet in blank form as well as several that have correction data pre-entered. The file name will indicate which kind of beer style it's geared towards.
Note however that the spreadsheets below are still "in development". I've been working with it's creator, a user named "TH" on homebrewtalk.com so it may change a little over time. For best results, download the newest version from http://www.huizingh.net/EZ_water_adjustment.xls